FLUXBLOG 2002 SURVEY MIX

jesus, have i really been following the blog for 10 years?

WHOA, United State of Electronica! I can’t believe anyone outside of Seattle knew who they were - which I don’t mean in a pretentious way, just in that way that I went to a ton of their shows growing up and always thought they were a small local band. I didn’t know they had any beyond PNW exposure at all. But that makes me so, so happy. I loved that friggin’ band.

That makes me very, very happy. They were such a fun band.

Or are, I guess… I kind of lost track of them after that first album.

This is just fantastic, man! The early - mid ’00s just seem much more adventurous and eclectic than now (though naturally this is seen through the prism of nostalgia, and remembering how much I effing cared about music, and esp. new music, back then). Sugababes - yes! Mclusky - yes YES! T.a.t.u. - yes Yes YES!!! (seriously, major props for including them - they are easy to dismiss and piss on, but All the Things She Said and, especially, Not Gonna Get Us are just absolute monster songs - sort of a precursor to the off the hook maximalism of Xenomania).

Also, makes me sad to thing that that Ugly Casanova album might have been the last truly brilliant thing Issac Brock will ever record (the subsequent Mouse releases have their moments, but display none of the cracked genius that made their early stuff so great)

western homes was the first mp3 blog. deal with it.

Oh, not all of these tracks were reviewed at the time. The site was a bit different back then. A lot of these mixes will include songs I didn’t cover at the time.

Also, if you miss the old yellow site, you’ll enjoy the artwork for this particular volume. (Though the site was all white in 2002.)

Congrats, been a fan since it came out.

I’m gonna need a new hard drive

[...] one a multi-disc affair spotlighting the best music for each year Fluxblog’s been around. Here’s the 8-disc Fluxblog 2002 survey mix. I’m particularly gratified to see the big response in the comments for the Azure Ray and [...]

So these mixes were made in 2012 with 10 years hindsight, or are they more or less what you put together in 2002? Any notable additions/omissions from what you would have included then?

Either way, thank you and congratulations on the milestone.

Looking forward to all of these retrospectives. As I said to my friend, it’s like opening up my dead 2003 iBook for some signs of life from a decade ago. And some tracks were never recovered again so thanks.
Where’s that non-album cut of Karenology from?

Matthew I’ve been dating a girl for two months and it’s been going great and now these mixes (and the prospect of many, many others) on top of everything else is just killing it (in the good way!) for me right now. So many thanks!

Surprised there’s no “Hella good”, “Hands around my throat” or “Dance to the underground” but thanks for this amazing selection and congratulations for your still very influential blog.

Well “Dance to the underground” came in Europe in Autumn 2002 but Discogs says it’s from 2001, damn I feel so old.

ps - i should mention that although i really like the new logo, i kinda miss the girl avatar that used to greet me when i arrived. she was cute.